I wonder how he'll do with the travel side of the equation - When someone lands at Ben Gurion and then states an intention to speak in Palestine, one typically faces an extensive set of invasive questions - Questions that I suspect someone like Stallman may be unwilling to answer. If that's the case, he may find himself back on the next flight to the USA.
So explain why I have to shut off my non-wi-fi-capable ebook reader during take-off and landing?
Because it's easier to tell people to turn off *all* electronics than it is to read out a detailed list of what can remain on and what must be switched off. It's also much easier to go down the aisle and just say "switch that off" that it is to figger out what "it" is an whether or not it can remain on...
No it doesn't, because it's still the lesser of two evils. I would argue being forced to stay on dial-up (even if you don't want to) is a greater evil than having broadband delivered by a monopolistic telecom. This is about Grandma and Grandpa being able to watch youtube videos of their grandkids and entrepreneurs being able to set up shop in remote communities.
Did you RTFA? This isn't Donkey Kong Jr. we're talking about here. DLP software, while extremely sophisticated, isn't that hard to use - What's difficult is the requirement for a company to create business policies that define what data is critical and what isn't. If you turn the alerts up too high, end-users and IT security are bombarded by noise and warnings, making the system useless. If you turn the alerts down too low, then you run the risk of data leakage.
The very idea of giving stock options to high level executives is antithetical to the purpose of retaining quality executives who will make good decisions for the benefit of the company.
Huh? If you're an exec with 100K options in Company X it's in your interest to make good decisions which in turn drive up the share value. If an exec makes bad decisions that drive down share value, it hurts *them* in the wallet. This is exactly what you want to see...
I have a P3 1 GHz laptop with 700ish megs of RAM - I've got an optimized XP on it, and IE 7 runs fine. In fact IE7 runs much faster than Firefox. So I'd streamline the OS as much as you can, then run IE 7.
used the fucking RFID to track your unsuspecting customers
Do any of you tinfoil-hat wearing anti-RFID ranters know anything about the technology? The cheap passive RFID tags that are used in applications like this have a very short read range, and can only be red if they're excited by an appropriate field. THE MAN isn't going to be able to track you to with a drycleaning RFID tag unless he's from Hogwart's...
Generally, the letters to major politicians around the world (in democratic countries) are read by a small time member(s) their staff. When same issue starts coming up in sufficient amount of letters, they take it to their boss, usually chief of staff.
I can't speak for other nations like the USA, but as for here in Canada, you're greatly overstating the number of people staffing a Canadian Member of Parliament. You'll typically have a staffer or two at their constituency office "back home" and a staffer in their office in Ottawa and that's about it. There will be some pooled staff to support things like travel, but these are non-political staff. An MP will not have a "Chief of Staff" unless s/he's a federal Minister. I recently wrote a letter to my MP and a week later he phoned me. That's not uncommon if your letter is well-written, non-wingnuttish, and under the MP's jurisdiction (i.e. not city potholes).
The primary problem with trolls is that they get fed. Other users MUST feed trolls - They're powerless to resist. You can scream DON'T FEED THE TROLLS at the top of your lungs yet time after time after time yet they'll still be fed, everywhere, all the time. If you could somehow figure out how to address the other users who feed the trolls, the trolls would eventually starve and die off. Of course, getting rid of spam would be easier than this, as it goes against human nature, but if it could be solved the troll problem would go away...
True, and interesting. If you weren't a coward, I'd give you a point. Back when "Palm Pilots," The Newton and their ilk arrived nearly twenty years ago, it was all about handwriting capture. I remember university profs that would write in Palm Graffiti (Google it) on the blackboards. Today, no one writes with a stylus on their tablets...
After all, if the Slashdot crowd--supposedly a little brighter than the average Joe--can't get it together enough to know the difference between they're and their then we are indeed in trouble
Exactly right. If you're unsure of your grammar, write your reply in your favourite "word processor," correct the grammar and spelling mistakes, then paste it to Slashdot and click the preview button. Once you've confirmed your tags and links are correct, submit the sucker and you're off to the races. How hard is that?
DVDs are cheaper all around. Orders of magnitude more stuff is available in DVD.
Exactly right. Also, DVDs play everywhere. If I buy a DVD I can watch in on several TVs in the house or on my laptop. I can (reasonably) easily rip it and watch it on my iPod. Blu-Ray is just too hard.
I mean, really, what does all the Python referencing in the geek community prove
I think a big part of the appeal of Python in the 'geek' community is that the writing (at least in the well-known sketches) is just plain 'clever.' They don't dumb it down - They just assume the audience gets it, and move on. There hasn't really been anything like it, since then.
From a centurion correcting Brian's bad Latin grammar, to songs about philosophers, to word plays - "The palindrome of bolton would be notlob!"
Just like people carrying drugs in their cars might suddenly get angry and combative with police about being pulled over "for no good reason".
Huh? If you ask my cop friends, this almost never happens. Usually the confrontational people are the ones with nothing to hide, and they know it. The ones with drugs in their trunk are always very reasonable, in the hopes they'll get to 'go on their way.'
What annoys me is the fact that remote buttons (or their functionality) aren't replicated on the endpoint device. I realize electronics manufacturers want to keep their devices 'clean' but dagnabit you should still be able to access all the functionality on your device without needing to use the remote - On my devices you can't turn the subtitles on and off or access the test tone or perform a myriad of other actions without having the remote in your hand - A remote that your toddler may have conveniently hidden in a drawer or used to stir her apple juice.
I was wondering what would happen if we were *really* in a war with someone like Russia, and you just THOUGHT you were playing a game, but come to find out you were really controlling some defense system, and just killed a few hundred people in the real world.
Slashdot Mirror
You'll do well if you repost your question to this forum - Lots of good info there:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology-169/
Start with the "stickies."
I wonder how he'll do with the travel side of the equation - When someone lands at Ben Gurion and then states an intention to speak in Palestine, one typically faces an extensive set of invasive questions - Questions that I suspect someone like Stallman may be unwilling to answer. If that's the case, he may find himself back on the next flight to the USA.
despite the fact that we often do so for pragmatic reasons like getting paid
+1
How does Stallman pay his bills, anyway? AFAIK, MIT doesn't pay him. Is it all from paid speaking gigs? BTW, Speeches Want To Be Free.
So explain why I have to shut off my non-wi-fi-capable ebook reader during take-off and landing?
Because it's easier to tell people to turn off *all* electronics than it is to read out a detailed list of what can remain on and what must be switched off. It's also much easier to go down the aisle and just say "switch that off" that it is to figger out what "it" is an whether or not it can remain on...
The world sucks
No it doesn't, because it's still the lesser of two evils. I would argue being forced to stay on dial-up (even if you don't want to) is a greater evil than having broadband delivered by a monopolistic telecom. This is about Grandma and Grandpa being able to watch youtube videos of their grandkids and entrepreneurs being able to set up shop in remote communities.
Explain to me how you fly nonstop from Miami to Barcelona on Emirates.
Actually, it was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g
I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's your own problem.
Well designed software is easy to use.
Did you RTFA? This isn't Donkey Kong Jr. we're talking about here. DLP software, while extremely sophisticated, isn't that hard to use - What's difficult is the requirement for a company to create business policies that define what data is critical and what isn't. If you turn the alerts up too high, end-users and IT security are bombarded by noise and warnings, making the system useless. If you turn the alerts down too low, then you run the risk of data leakage.
The very idea of giving stock options to high level executives is antithetical to the purpose of retaining quality executives who will make good decisions for the benefit of the company.
Huh? If you're an exec with 100K options in Company X it's in your interest to make good decisions which in turn drive up the share value. If an exec makes bad decisions that drive down share value, it hurts *them* in the wallet. This is exactly what you want to see...
I have a P3 1 GHz laptop with 700ish megs of RAM - I've got an optimized XP on it, and IE 7 runs fine. In fact IE7 runs much faster than Firefox. So I'd streamline the OS as much as you can, then run IE 7.
used the fucking RFID to track your unsuspecting customers
Do any of you tinfoil-hat wearing anti-RFID ranters know anything about the technology? The cheap passive RFID tags that are used in applications like this have a very short read range, and can only be red if they're excited by an appropriate field. THE MAN isn't going to be able to track you to with a drycleaning RFID tag unless he's from Hogwart's...
Generally, the letters to major politicians around the world (in democratic countries) are read by a small time member(s) their staff. When same issue starts coming up in sufficient amount of letters, they take it to their boss, usually chief of staff.
I can't speak for other nations like the USA, but as for here in Canada, you're greatly overstating the number of people staffing a Canadian Member of Parliament. You'll typically have a staffer or two at their constituency office "back home" and a staffer in their office in Ottawa and that's about it. There will be some pooled staff to support things like travel, but these are non-political staff. An MP will not have a "Chief of Staff" unless s/he's a federal Minister. I recently wrote a letter to my MP and a week later he phoned me. That's not uncommon if your letter is well-written, non-wingnuttish, and under the MP's jurisdiction (i.e. not city potholes).
Just because China is planning to planning to build something does not mean they will
Sure, but China's track record on executing on promised mega-projects is pretty good.
Men in orbit? Check.
High-speed Rail? Check.
Three-gorges dam? Check.
Hangzhou Bay Bridge? Check.
We could go on and on...
Meanwhile, all the USA seems able to produce any more is Obama's birth certificate.
The primary problem with trolls is that they get fed. Other users MUST feed trolls - They're powerless to resist. You can scream DON'T FEED THE TROLLS at the top of your lungs yet time after time after time yet they'll still be fed, everywhere, all the time. If you could somehow figure out how to address the other users who feed the trolls, the trolls would eventually starve and die off. Of course, getting rid of spam would be easier than this, as it goes against human nature, but if it could be solved the troll problem would go away...
iPad has nothing to do with handwriting
True, and interesting. If you weren't a coward, I'd give you a point. Back when "Palm Pilots," The Newton and their ilk arrived nearly twenty years ago, it was all about handwriting capture. I remember university profs that would write in Palm Graffiti (Google it) on the blackboards. Today, no one writes with a stylus on their tablets...
After all, if the Slashdot crowd--supposedly a little brighter than the average Joe--can't get it together enough to know the difference between they're and their then we are indeed in trouble
Exactly right. If you're unsure of your grammar, write your reply in your favourite "word processor," correct the grammar and spelling mistakes, then paste it to Slashdot and click the preview button. Once you've confirmed your tags and links are correct, submit the sucker and you're off to the races. How hard is that?
Crude oil and the plunging US dollar will do away with expensive shiny toys.
Not while people still have access to cheap credit they won't.
Then you should RTFA
You're new here, aren't you?
DVDs are cheaper all around. Orders of magnitude more stuff is available in DVD.
Exactly right. Also, DVDs play everywhere. If I buy a DVD I can watch in on several TVs in the house or on my laptop. I can (reasonably) easily rip it and watch it on my iPod. Blu-Ray is just too hard.
I mean, really, what does all the Python referencing in the geek community prove
I think a big part of the appeal of Python in the 'geek' community is that the writing (at least in the well-known sketches) is just plain 'clever.' They don't dumb it down - They just assume the audience gets it, and move on. There hasn't really been anything like it, since then.
From a centurion correcting Brian's bad Latin grammar, to songs about philosophers, to word plays - "The palindrome of bolton would be notlob!"
Just like people carrying drugs in their cars might suddenly get angry and combative with police about being pulled over "for no good reason".
Huh? If you ask my cop friends, this almost never happens. Usually the confrontational people are the ones with nothing to hide, and they know it. The ones with drugs in their trunk are always very reasonable, in the hopes they'll get to 'go on their way.'
What annoys me is the fact that remote buttons (or their functionality) aren't replicated on the endpoint device. I realize electronics manufacturers want to keep their devices 'clean' but dagnabit you should still be able to access all the functionality on your device without needing to use the remote - On my devices you can't turn the subtitles on and off or access the test tone or perform a myriad of other actions without having the remote in your hand - A remote that your toddler may have conveniently hidden in a drawer or used to stir her apple juice.
is approximately 1.85486e43
I can only measure large numbers in units of Libraries of Congress.
I was wondering what would happen if we were *really* in a war with someone like Russia, and you just THOUGHT you were playing a game, but come to find out you were really controlling some defense system, and just killed a few hundred people in the real world.
Greetings, Professor Falken.
How about a nice game of chess?